Electric battery.



PATENTED NOV. 3, 1903. 71

I -H. HALSEY. ELECTRIC BATTERY.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 23, 1903.

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No. 743,274, Patented November 3, 1903.

' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

IIENRY HALSEY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO HALSEY ELECTRIC GENERATOR COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

ELECTR'IC BATTERY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 743,274, dated November 3, 1903.

. Application filed June 23, 1903. Serial No. 162,695. (No model.)

T at whom it may concern: shaft 4: is covered with insulation and is of Be it known that I, HENRY I-IALsEY,a citiconducting material. One of the disks 13 zen of theUnited States, residing atNew York, carries a gear 12, which meshes with a gear in the county of New York and State of New 14. The gear 14 is mounted on shaft in 5 York, have invented certain new and useful. bearings 9 on the cover. Pulley 11 or other Improvementsin Electric Batteries, of which suitable means is provided for driving the the followingis a full, clear, and exact specigear 14. .Mounted over slots 20 in the cover fication. p 2 is a contact-bar 18, carrying spring-clips 16 This invention relates to improvements in and a binding-post 19. The spring-clips hold to the construction of electric batteries, and has the plates 15, forming the positive electrode, especial reference to the type employing a in position at their upper ends and at the movable electrode. same time make contact through the bar 18 The object of the invention is to provide a with the binding-post 19. The cover isgrooved battery having a minimum number of parts, to correspond with the clips 16. The bridge 5 [5 an increased efficiency, and which shall be 21 contains similar grooves, into which the adapted to be readily assembled and taken plates fit, and as each plate is provided with apart. a cut-out portion 22, which clears shaft 4, the

In the present battery I support the staplates may be slid into and out of their retionary electrodes upon the cover, thereby spective positions. The conducting-bars 5 7o 20 dispensing with the framework heretofore arlead to a U-shaped plate 7, which carries a ranged within the battery-casing to support binding-post 8. i such electrodes. I also provide for the con It will be seen that by the foregoingconvenient removal of such electrodes without struction the battery is simplified and that dismantlingthe battery or disarranging the the positive electrode'can be easily removed 2 5 mechanism for imparting motion to the movwithout dismantling the battery or disarable electrode of the battery. Q ranging the gearing by which the movable The invention will be, more particularly electrode is rotated. When the battery is described with reference to the accompanynot in use, the cover will be removed, carrying drawings, in whiching with it the electrodes, and thus prevent- 8o 30 Figure 1 represents a cross-section of a bating waste.

tery embodying myimprovements. Fig. 2 is Modifications and changes may be made a side view of a cover carrying the electrodes, Without departing from the scope of the inand Fig. 3 is a reduced plan'view. vention.

1 represents a casing or receptacle adapted Having thus described my invention, I de- 3 5 .to contain an electrolyte and having a cover clare that what I claim as new, and desire to 2 fitting thereon. Attached to the under side secure by Letters Patent, isof the cover 2 are hangers 3, connected across 1. In a battery, the combination with a casthe bottom by a bridge-piece 21. The hang ing, of a cover carrying hangers, and movers are dovetailed into the top of the cover, able and fixed electrodes supported by said 0 0 so as to make a rigid joint, and are made of hangers, substantiallyas described.

' insulating material not afiected by the elec- 2. In a battery, the combination with a castrolyte. Embedded in the hangers are eyeing, of a cover carrying hangers, electrodes bars 5, of conducting material, threaded at supported by said hangers, and electrical their upper ends and carrying nuts 6, which conductors embedded in said hangers, and

45 serve to fasten the hangers to the cover. The contacting with the electrodes, substantially bars 5 carry at their lower ends a shaft 4, as described.

upon which is mounted the negative elec- 3. In abattery, acover carrying hangers, a trode 13. The negative electrode is composed movable electrode supported in said hangers,

I of one or more disks connected by ahub and a bridge-piece connecting said hangers and I00 50 electrically connected with the shaft 4. Exan electrode supported by said bridge-piece,

cept where it contacts with the eyebars 5 the substantially as described.

4:- In a battery, the combination of hangers adapted to carry a movable electrode, and a bridge piece .carried by said hangers and adapted to support a stationary electrode, substantially as described.

5. In a battery, the combination of a cover, a pair of hangers depending therefrom,a movable electrode supported by said hangers,said hangers being extended and connected by a bridge-piece, a stationary electrode supported between said bridge-piece and said cover, and a spring-contact electrically connecting said stationary electrode with a binding-post, substantially as described.

6. Ina battery, the combination of a cover, a pair of hangers depending therefrom,a movable electrode supported by said hangers, said hangers being extended and connected by a bridge-piece, a stationary electrode supported between said bridge-piece and said cover, substantially as described.

7. In a battery, the combination of a cover, a pair of hangers depending therefrom,a movable electrode supported by said hangers,said

hangers being extended and connected by a bridge-piece,a stationary electrode supported between said bridge-piece and said cover, and a spring-clip adapted to steady said electrode and convey current therefrom, substantially as described.

8. In a battery, the combination with a cover carrying a driving-gear, of hangers carrying a movable electrode, a conducting-bar in said hangers connected with said electrode, a bridge-piece connecting said hangers, an electrode supported on said bridge-piece, and a contact device therefor, substantially as described.

9. In a battery, the combination of a cover supporting both electrodes,and a bridge-piece also carried by said cover and cooperating therewith to support one ofv said electrodes, substantially as described.

10. In a battery, the combination with a series of electrodes, of a contact-bar carrying clips adapted to engage said electrodes, substantially as described.

11. In a battery, the combination of a series of electrodes, a cover, and a contact-bar carried by said cover and carrying clips adapted to engage the several electrodes, substantially as described.

12. In a battery, the combination of a cover, a movable electrode and a stationary electrode carried thereby, and means whereby said stationary electrode may be removed without disturbing the movable electrode, substantially as described.

13. In a battery, the combination of a cover, a shaft carrying a movable element and having bearings supported upon said cover, and a stationary element also carried by said cover and adapted to be moved into and out of its normal position Without disturbing said movable element, substantially as described.

14. In a battery, the combination with the casing, of a cover, a pair of hangers carried thereby, said hangers having bearings adapted to support a movable electrode and supports adapted to receive a stationary electrode, substantially as described.

' 15. In a battery, a cover, a frame supported thereby, plates supported in said frame and contact-springs on said cover adapted to connect and retain the plates, substantially as described.

16. In a battery, the combination with a cover, of a movable electrode attached thereto, and a fixed electrode also attached to the cover and having a cut-out portion adapted to clear the bearing of the movable electrode, substantially as described.

17. In a battery, the combination ofacover carrying a spring-contact clip, and an electrode adapted to be engaged thereby, substantially as described.

18. In a battery,the combination of aframe, a movable electrode mounted upon a shaft having bearings independent of said frame, and a stationary electrode adapted to be supported in said frame and having a cut-away portion adapted to clear said shaft, substantially as described.

19. In a battery, the combination with a top carrying a depending movable element, of a fixed element comprising one or more plates, each plate being cut out from one side toward the center, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HENRY HALSEY.

Witnesses:

ANTHONY J. ERNEST, GEORGE N. KERR. 

